Mark Bingham's call from the plane's air phone was to his mother.
He used an air-phone to call a GTE supervisor who patched him through to the FBI.
Users can control some other applications by making gestures in the air above the phone.
Over the past ten years the likelihood of my questions resulting in only dead air over the phone line has gone down considerably.
The Reva e-20 goes up to 100 kilometers per charge and equipped with the usual geeked-out smart phone connectivity that allows drivers to lock their cars and turn on the air conditioning from their phone.
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The new Air Mouse app empowers iPhone4 users to transform their phone into an in-air motion controller for home media and presentation uses.
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This particular man owned a Mac Air, an Android phone and even more, a Kindle.
Users could even conceivably buy their air ticket using their phone at a convenience store with such readers.
The Galaxy S4 also offers new forms of interaction, such as Air Gesture, which lets users navigate the phone without touching it, and Air View, which lets users preview, say, email content, by hovering their finger over the screen.
The page will include current X Games 16 content (daily highlights and discipline highlights), ESPN Films (30 for 30: The Birth of Big Air, 199 Lives: The Travis Pastrana Story, Shaun White: Don't Look Down, Moto X: Evolution of the Trick, and Down the Barrel), Athlete Music Playlists (from Mat Hoffman, Kenny Brack, Blake "Bilko" Williams, and Josh Hansen), As Heard at X music playlists (from our on-air broadcast), Phone Aps, and Free Podcasts.
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The building boasts views of the Saigon River, full back-up electricity, centralized air-conditioning, direct phone lines and high-speed lifts.
This will be especially true for products whose pricing is complex, variable and therefore unpredictable to buyers, such as insurance, air travel, mobile-phone plans and hotel rooms.
MotionTools also has built in gesture recognition that allows users to gently swipe their phone in the air to launch applications, skip through songs in a playlist, activate presentation effects, navigate the web, and much, much more.
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You may recall Airfone, the air-to-ground pay phone service that debuted on commercial flights in the 1980s.
It enables disabled people to control lights, make phone calls, operate air conditioners and perform other simple tasks.
The result of allowing phone calls in the air would produce the opposite of the tranquilizing effect of permitting other forms of electronic communication.
The pair exchanged angry words during the debate but Peres told CNN on Friday the two leaders had spoken on the phone to clear the air.
Now staff can come into an office, find some space for an Ultrabook, tablet or MacBook Air, plop down a mobile phone and go to work.
Back in 2008, the BBC apologized to actor Andrew Sachs after two radio presenters -- Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross -- left a series of messages on his phone while on-air, including offensive references to his granddaughter.
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Both snag radio communication, phone calls and emissions from air defense weapons and pinpoint their origins.
While some of them booed the empty stage, others stood anxiously, holding their cell phone-cameras in the air for minutes at a time.
To counteract data loss, Main.net's cofounder and head scientist, Schaike Zalitsky , built on techniques used to beam cell phone calls through the noisy air.
Nokia also said it has signed a partnership with Air China to offer wireless charges for the phone in Beijing Airport VIP lounges.
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Powell's departure also leaves a number of other major issues up in the air, including how local and long distance phone companies compensate each other for handling calls across networks.
Korean kids interact with some TV quiz shows via cell phone, guessing at answers over the air.
Its Net Fone package bundles broadband access, Internet phone service and free-to-air TV channels, and is attracting nearly 30, 000 new customers a month.
The rooms are designed like upgraded 1950s bomb shelters, with air filters to screen out biological agents, dedicated phone lines, bathrooms and closed-circuit TV systems.
For example, 3G cell phones require multiple power amps (compared to one in each 2G phone) to support 2G and 3G air interface standards across multiple frequency bands.
Since they are digital, the keys can be distributed over the air or revoked remotely via a signal sent to the phone.
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